Study: Western Europe had less than 1% of terror victims in 2016

Study: W. Europe had less than 1% of terror victims in 2016

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A new report offering a different perspective after recent terror attacks in France, Britain and Spain says that of the 34,676 people killed in attacks last year, 238 were in Western Europe while 19,121 were in North Africa and the Middle East.

AFP|Published: 26.08.17

Western Europe accounted for less than one percent of the 34,676 people killed in terror attacks in 2016 and only two percent of attacks, according to a new report.

The Middle East and North Africa bore the brunt of last year’s extremist violence, according to figures from the Global Terrorism Database maintained by the University of Maryland.

Policemen at the site of the Aug. 17 attack in Barcelona, Spain (Photo: EPA)